A splinter in your foot is no fun. It can cause pain, especially when you put weight on the foot with the splinter. Of more concern, however, is that the splinter could have introduced bacteria or ...

Splinters, small embedded shards, cause pain due to abundant skin receptors. Effective removal involves careful techniques, ...

Has your dust mop ever gotten caught on a splinter in your wood floor? It's aggravating, and the temptation is to pull that little sucker right up. But that would be the worst thing to do. The ...

An 8-year-old Thurmont boy was hospitalized Tuesday after being impaled by a foot-long splinter on the wooden slide at Rocky Ridge's Mount Tabor Park. Rescue officials found the boy around 5:30 p.m., ...